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I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

~Alan Sugar

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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

~Andrew Lansley

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Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

~Aung San Suu Kyi

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It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.

~Avigdor Lieberman

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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

~Bing Gordon

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I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

~Charles Dance

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I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates.

~Corrine Brown

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I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

~David Byrne

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I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

~Dean Ornish

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I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.

~Dick Wolf

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